The purpose of this course is to acquaint the students with the aspects of American literature which has a different cultural and geographical background. Selections from Poetry, Drama and Novel have been made by including the representative writers of 19th and 20th century. It will also enable the students to make a comparative study of British and American literature.
1. History of American Literature
| 2. Poetry | |
| Walt Whitman Robert Frost |
Extracts from Song of Myself (Sections: 1-2-3-6-20-21-32-48-52) Selected Poems: The Pasture The Tuft of Flowers Mending Walls After Apple Picking An Old Man's Winter Night Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening The Bear Desert Places |
| 3. Drama | |
| Eugene O'Neill |
Mourning Becomes Electra |
| 4. Novel | |
| Hawthorne Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald |
The Scarlet Letter A Farewell to Arms The Great Gatsby |
| Suggested Readings: | |
| Robert Frost Hawthorne |
Centenary Essays American classics revisited 20th Century Views Myth and Modern American Drama American in Novel |
1. The Scarlet Letter as a psychological novel
2. Pakistan Journal of American Studies (Literature Volumes)
3. Co-relation of Mysticism and Science in Whitman’s‘Song of Myself’
4. Robert Frost: A Poet of 'Practical Problems’
2. South Asian Literature (Option-II)
| Novels | |
| Khushwant Singh Amitav Ghosh Kiran Desai Bharati Mukherjee Bapsi Sidhwa Kamila Shamsie Monica Ali |
Train to Pakistan The Shadow Lines Inheritance of Loss Jasmine Bride Burnt Shadows In the Kitchen |
| Short Stories | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri Daniyal Moin-ud-Din |
Interpreter of Maladies In Other Room, Other Wonders |
| Poetry | |
| Kamala Das Taufiq Rafat Daud Kamal Nissim Ezekiel Imtiaz Dharker Moniza Alvi |
(Selection from: A Doll for the Child Prostitute) (Selection from: A Dragonfly in the Sun) (Selection from: A Dragonfly in the Sun) Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S. & The Professor After Creation Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan |
| Drama | |
| Mahesh Dattani Tariq Ali |
Final Solutions The Fox and the Leopard |
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